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Mark Kurlansky

American Journalist

Born: Dec 7, 1948

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Before Birdseye, hardly anybody ate frozen food because it was awful. Mark Kurlansky

Food Before Ate Because Anybody Frozen Awful Hardly

You could be a locavore in Florida or southern California. But I tried that. It was really limiting. Mark Kurlansky

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I'm an urban person. Mark Kurlansky

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People motivated by fear do not act well. Mark Kurlansky

People Fear Well Motivated Act

What people eat is not well documented. Food writers prefer to focus on fashionable, expensive restaurants whose creative dishes reflect little of what most people are eating. Mark Kurlansky

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I think that Judaism has been, throughout its history since A.D. 70, a diaspora culture that's all about being a minority. In fact, being a small minority. When I'm in Israel, I cannot get used to the notion that we're all Jewish. It doesn't seem to me that we're supposed to all be Jewish. Mark Kurlansky

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One of the truly horrible things about the Holocaust is that it doesn't end in 1945. It keeps affecting our lives in the way we think, and it will affect the way our children see the world. Mark Kurlansky

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In 'A Chosen Few,' I spent hours and hours listening to the pain of people of who had survived wondering why they survived and what their life means and what right do they have to survive. Mark Kurlansky

Life People Listening Few Pain Spent Had Hours Hours And Hours Survive Survived Wondering To Survive Means Who Chosen Why Right

Before refrigeration, most food was heavily salted. Many of these salted foods have persisted, such as sauerkraut, pickles, cured anchovies, cheese, salted butter, ham, corned beef, sausage, and bacon. We still eat these things because we like them. But they are no longer the mainstay of our diet. Mark Kurlansky

I think food is very important to how we live as people and as families. Mark Kurlansky

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I get up very early and write a lot. Mark Kurlansky

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Paper is at the center of so many of the elements of the development of civilization. Mark Kurlansky

Paper Civilization Development Center Many Elements

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